On 2008.09.19 15:40:25 -0500, Spencer Janssen
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 02:33:00PM -0400, Gwern Branwen wrote: ... If I might suggest a few name changes: - change sendKeyScreen to sendKey - change sendKeysym to sendKeyWindow
Good suggestions. I've done so. I also did a copy-replace of 'paste' for 'send', to assist people in searching. I suspect many more people will think 'paste' than 'send', even if the low-level X functions are named in terms of the latter.
My first question is, is there any way to scrap all the KeyMask plumbing? I looked at the X11 docs, but there doesn't seem to be any null modmask - mod1Mask is Alt, Shift is Shift, and so on.
KeyMask is a bitmask, so 0 is the no modifiers pressed state. I'd also leave the KeyMask argument on sendKeysym and sendKeyscreen -- some users want to send keys with modifiers (eg. the person that started this thread).
Ah. I feel a little guilty bypassing the Mod* types to plug in in a 0, but it works, it seems.
My second question is, why does 'keysymToKeycode' take a String? I manually played around with it in GHCi and it seems every String which isn't a Char always gets evaluated to '0'.
I assume you mean stringToKeysym. Try: stringToKeysym "F1". You should probably filter out the 0 results when sending a string, or perhaps throw an error.
Cheers, Spencer Janssen
Maybe. It's not really an issue for this code, is it? Since the type only takes Char, one cannot make it run stringToKeysym on a invalid string like "foo". And the functions lower down are in terms of Keysyms. (Although I wonder if perhaps that bit of functionality should be explored in the X11 haddocks. I didn't notice anything in particular.) ---- Well, anyway. I've sent in a module if people want to look at it. -- gwern Bluebird 5707 Kosovo Zemin XM Guppy Internet NVD ABC SGI